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Yale Officers: Provosts

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The Office of Provost was created in 1919 by vote of the Corporation.

Provost

William Adams Brown (1919 - 1920)

Williston Walker (1920 - 1922)

Wilbur Lucius Cross (1922 - 1923)

Henry Solon Graves (1923 - 1927)

Charles Seymour (1928 - 1937)

Edgar Stephenson Furniss (1937 - 1958)

Norman Sydney Buck (1958 - 1961)

Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1960 - 1961), acting

Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1961 - 1963)

Charles H. Taylor, Jr. (1963 - 1964), acting

Charles H. Taylor, Jr. (1964 - 1972)

Richard N. Cooper (1972 - 1974)

Hanna Holborn Gray (1974 - 1978)

Abraham Goldstein (1978 - 1979)

Georges May (1979 - 1981), Provost Designate

William C. Brainard (1981 - 1986)

William D. Nordhaus (1986 - 1988), acting

Frank M. Turner (1988 - 1992)

Judith Rodin (1992 - 1994)

Alison F. Richard (1994 - 2002)

Susan Hockfield (2002 - 2004)

Andrew D. Hamilton (2004 - 2008)

Peter Salovey (2008 - 2013)

Benjamin Polak (2013 - 2019)

Scott Strobel (2019-Present)

Vice Provost

Peter Schiffer (2017-2020), Vice Provost for Research

Deputy Provost

Charles H. Long (1987-2010)

E.A. Adelberg (1983 - 1991)

Robert H. Szczarba (1990 - 1995)

Gordon M. Shepherd (1991 - 1995)

Stephanie Spangler (1995 - Present), Health Affairs & Academic Integrity

Pierre Hohenberg (1995 - 2003)

Diana E.E. Kleiner (1995 - 2003)

J. Lloyd Suttle (2001 - Present), Academic Resources

Barbara A. Shailor (2003 - 2012)

Andrew Hamilton (2003 - 2004)

H. Kim Bottomly (2005 - 2007)

Judith Chevalier  (2007 - 2009)

Steven Girvin (2007 - 2017), Science & Technology

Emily P. Bakemeier (2009 - Present), Arts & Humanities

Frances Rosenbluth (2009 - 2013), Social Sciences & Faculty Development

Susan Gibbons (2015 - Present), Libraries and Scholarly Communications

Richard Bribiescas (2015 - Present),  Faculty development and Diversity

Scott A. Strobel (2014 - Present),  Teaching and Learning

Pericles Lewis (2017-Present), International Affairs

Associate Provost

Frederick C. Redlich (1967 - 1972)

George D. Langdon, Jr. (1970 - 1972)

Jacqueline W. Mintz (1972 - 1976)

Radley H. Daly (1975)

Jonathan F. Fanton (1976 - 1978)

Sharon H. Penney (1976 - 1983)

Ellen Ryerson (1978 - 1982)

Richard C. Feguson (1979 - 1989)

Charles H. Long (1982 - 1987)

Linda Lorimer (1983 - 1987)

G.L. Haller (1987 - 1989)

J. Lloyd Suttle (1987 - 2001)

Robert H. Szczarba (1989 - 1990)

Anne T. Ameling (1989 - 1995)

Arline F. McCord (1989 - 1999)

Karen Lamb (2004 - 2005)

Emily Bakemeier (2004 - 2009)

Bruce F. Carmichael (2005 - 2008)

Thomas Masse (2009 - 2011), Arts

Timothy O’Connor (2009 - 2014), Science & Technology)

Cynthia Smith (2010-Present)Health Affairs

James Soto Anthony (2012-2015)

John Mangan (2013-2014)

James Slattery (2014-Present)Research

Karen Anderson (2015-Present)Academic Resources and Faculty Development

Megan Barnett (2015-Present)

Assistant Provost

Bjong Yeigh (1999 - 2003)

Erica Ehrenberg (2000 - 2002)

Emily Bakemeier (2000 - 2004)

Karen Lamb (2000 - 2005)

Bruce F. Carmichael (2003 - 2005)

Robert Burger   (2006 - 2014), Science & Technology

Cynthia Smith   (2008 - 2014), Health Affairs

Brian Lizotte (2009 - 2014), Humanities

Lisa D'Angelo (2015-Present), Research

Jason Kilheffer (2016-Present)Academic Integrity

 

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